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In the weekly Resurgence Roundup, I compile some of the most interesting content I find online, as it pertains to the church and the people God has called us to reach. Keep in mind, I don’t endorse or agree with everything you’ll see included in the roundup. 

Syria church discovers bombs in confessional box

The Christian Post

Officials at Syria’s oldest known church confirmed that bombs were found in the church’s confessional box earlier this month. 

Study: Nearly 6M youth out of school or work, likely locked into limited prospects as adults

Associated Press

Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday. That’s almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to The Opportunity Nation coalition, which wrote the report. 

Watch out, pastors: Millennials are fact-checking your sermons

Christianity Today

Young churchgoers may be turning to YouVersion rather than their pew Bible during the Sunday sermon. Or they may be skeptically Googling what their pastor just said. 

Earlier this week, Barna Group released the results of “what happens when the unique spiritual characteristics and technological trends among Millennials collide?”…The most interesting finding: Nearly 4 out of 10 practicing Christian millennials are fact-checking their pastor’s sermons. 

Rapper Kanye West’s bizarre on-stage interaction with Jesus look-alike

The Blaze

Rapper Kanye West’s “Yeezus” tour launched on Saturday night at the Key Arena in Seattle, Wash., where he upped the ante on including religious themes and imagery in his performances by including a Jesus look-alike on stage. 

Study: Millennials find technology dehumanizing

USA Today

College students are constantly glued to their smartphones: texting, tweeting and updating their statuses on Facebook. But that doesn’t mean it makes them happy. 

New high: Majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana

TIME 

For the first time, a majority of Americans, 58%, favor legalizing marijuana, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. That number was just 12% in 1969, when Gallup first asked the question. 38% of Americans surveyed this year said they had tried marijuana, [and] young people make up the bulk of support for legalization.

Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

The Guardian

Japan’s under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren’t even dating, and increasing numbers can’t be bothered with sex. For their government, “celibacy syndrome” is part of a looming national catastrophe. 

Muslim city councilman pleased as candidates back school holidays

CBS New York

With both mayoral candidates supporting the addition of two Muslim holidays to the New York City public school calendar, one city councilman may finally get his wish. 

A clear and present danger: Religious liberty, marriage, and the family in the late modern age—an address at Brigham Young University

Al Mohler

Can any sustainable moral order survive this scale of intellectual revolution? We hear in today’s intellectual and ideological chorus the refrains of Karl Marx’s threat and promise as stated in The Communist Manifesto: “All that is solid melts into air.” The melting is everywhere around us. 

10 facts about the transforming global religious landscape

Huffington Post

The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted a comprehensive demographic study of over 230 countries and territories in 2012, and some of their results might surprise you: 

1. Religious ‘Nones’ are third-largest group
2. China has huge population of religiously unaffiliated
3. Most people are part of religious majorities in their countries
4. And more…

When no one wants to raise the parents

First Things

What happens to a society in which no one wishes to be a parent, to abandon ego in order to model compassion and sacrifice in a way that forms healthy adults and, by extension, healthy nations? If we put adulthood into suspense and choose to live like perpetual college students—focused on the self to a profoundly exclusionary degree—will the political class become the de facto adults in our society? If so, what values will they model?

 

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